tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post607385379379398243..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Which are first choice colleges and which are safety schools?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56402692409819277362012-02-05T18:24:21.277-08:002012-02-05T18:24:21.277-08:00""Masculinist cliches" course? Seri...""Masculinist cliches" course? Seriously? At Stanford?"<br /><br />My dream is to teach some of those classes, one day. There is a class on Oprah at the University of Chicago. My own alma mater offered Tolkien's Elvish language course. What does one have to do to get paid for picking a random topic one finds interesting and talking about it with people who signed up to fulfill some credit requirement, hopefully pushing one's opinions onto them? Is it just for relatives of important people (by blood or bed) and celebrities?Mayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47512076395337857152012-02-05T18:06:33.116-08:002012-02-05T18:06:33.116-08:00"Then again, you'd have to bite through y..."Then again, you'd have to bite through your lip for 4 yrs to endure the hyperleft indoctrination."<br /><br />In my increasingly dated impressions, my high school acquaintances who attended Brown ended up by far the most left wing of all those who headed for the Ivies. Genuinely indoctrinated and crazy. The Harvard, Princeton and Yale grads tended to be more career-oriented.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85945834834699455902012-02-03T21:43:27.132-08:002012-02-03T21:43:27.132-08:00To Andy Tuna Hater. From a Brown vs Cornell discu...To <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBUz4RnoWSM" rel="nofollow">Andy Tuna Hater</a>. From a <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/523577-brown-vs-cornell-2.html" rel="nofollow">Brown vs Cornell</a> discussion on College Confidential:<br /><br /><i><br />1. In 2008, the admit rate at Brown was 13.2% and the admit rate at Cornell was 20.4%<br />By definition, Brown is much more selective<br />Ivy League Admission Statistics<br /><br />2. Prestige is determined by how desirable a school is. <b>According to the New York Times, 76% of those who are admitted to both Brown and Cornell choose to go to Brown.</b><br />The New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices<br /><br />3. The gap between Brown and Cornell holds up in multiple ranking systems including the 2007 gold standard composite of all available rankings (US News, Gourman, Princeton Review, etc). Brown is ranked 8th and Cornell is ranked 20th.<br />The Consus Group: Composite College and University Rankings (2007) : The Consus Group Rankings<br /><br />4. Even in a random sampling of CC'ers there is a clear preference for Brown<br />on CC, Brown is ranked "favorite ivy" more than any other ivy and is third overall. Cornell is ranked last overall.<br />Your FAVORITE Ivy?<br /></i><br /><br />An exception would be for students who wish to study practical arts like accounting, business or IT - Cornell is your choice. I don't think Brown has these majors.<br /><br />Along with that thought, students' interested in Engineering would also be advised to attend Cornell. Again, I don't think Brown offers that and these guys likely raise the SAT averages.<br /><br />Then again, you'd have to bite through your lip for 4 yrs to endure the hyperleft indoctrination. No doubt all the elite stats are much higher for Brown grads like % accepted and earning professional or other higher degrees.Dean Wormernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17975213884946185112012-02-01T13:08:54.254-08:002012-02-01T13:08:54.254-08:00"When one parent asked how tough Caltech is, ..."When one parent asked how tough Caltech is, the tour leader started talking about how hard her freshman year had been, and then she started sobbing..."<br /><br />...at which point all the guys who really belonged at CalTech realized: "wow - this is the place for me!"<br /><br />Great story.Vinteuilhttp://vinteuil.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3078089692063867772012-02-01T09:52:46.647-08:002012-02-01T09:52:46.647-08:00Cornell is a better school than Brown in just abou...<i>Cornell is a better school than Brown in just about every respect: average SAT is very slightly lower, but that's only because the student body is much larger. Much better sports, campus, and selection of majors. Plus a law and medical school.</i><br /><br />That doesn't make much sense. <br /><br />You admit that Brown's student body is smarter.<br /><br />How does having a law school make a university "better"? <br /><br />How does having a medical school make a university better than another that also has a medical school (as Brown does)?<br /><br />Brown leads the football series between the schools 32-26-1.ben tillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49293953376679262032012-01-31T23:24:53.038-08:002012-01-31T23:24:53.038-08:00I saw some of American Graffiti in 1982 when I was...I saw some of American Graffiti in 1982 when I was 16 and cable had just become available in our neighborhood. To be honest, if I'd seen it before I had reached adolescence I wouldn't have wanted to be a teenager, ever.articlesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8908049958386289602012-01-31T21:57:17.638-08:002012-01-31T21:57:17.638-08:00So, yeah, it would make sense to call Caltech not ...So, yeah, it would make sense to call Caltech not a safety school but a danger school, only for the daring.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2426294339850289412012-01-31T21:56:29.871-08:002012-01-31T21:56:29.871-08:00I've mentioned it before, but I was once visit...I've mentioned it before, but I was once visiting the Caltech campus researching a story about the administration's plan to have Richard Serra build a rusty metal wall across the only large lawn on campus and came upon a sophomore coed leading a tour of high school prospects and their parents. When one parent asked how tough Caltech is, the tour leader started talking about how hard her freshman year had been, and then she started sobbing. I've never even heard of that happening on tours of other colleges, much less seen it with my own eyes.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77149719093938172852012-01-31T21:53:49.570-08:002012-01-31T21:53:49.570-08:00"Masculinist cliches" course? Seriously?..."Masculinist cliches" course? Seriously? At Stanford?Julian O'Deahttp://julianodea.blogspot.com.au/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43472717968025982742012-01-31T19:59:59.033-08:002012-01-31T19:59:59.033-08:00Something Gregg Easterbrook pointed out about Amer...Something Gregg Easterbrook pointed out about American Graffiti: It was released in 1973 and was set in 1962. The change in the world over that eleven years was enough to engender weepy nostalgia for simpler times.<br /><br />If you released a movie today about 2001, would anyone notice anything different, besides perhaps the ubiquity of smartphones?<br /><br />At some point in the recent past (I would guess somewhere in the '90s) popular culture simply stopped evolving at any sort of obvious rate.<br /><br />I have no idea if there is deeper meaning in that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68932823962776760312012-01-31T19:12:17.953-08:002012-01-31T19:12:17.953-08:00I was an alumni rep for Caltech for several years....I was an alumni rep for Caltech for several years. In two cases, high school students I advised turned down Caltech for Princeton or Harvard. In neither case was it about prestige. In both cases, it was raw fear that they wouldn't make it through Tech with good grades.<br /><br />Caltech is so tiny that its accept list is only students who are academically top at other schools. The same is not true for other top schools. Hence a weaker student who gets admitted to an elite will never turn it down -- he just won the lottery. There are no such lottery winners at Caltech. People who only score 600 in Math and do Art or wanna run for Congress just never get in. And there's no AA.<br /><br />Of course, you could ask MIT students who've seen Caltech's Core. All those I've met readily admit that Caltech is much rougher and more rigorous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71784351925357817302012-01-31T19:08:14.738-08:002012-01-31T19:08:14.738-08:00Caltech student body
Undergraduate students:
585 ...Caltech student body<br /><br />Undergraduate students:<br />585 men<br />382 women<br /><br />Graduate students:<br />857 men<br />351 women<br /><br />Is there any AA for women at Caltech? I have no idea. Just asking someone who might know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50221291029700864022012-01-31T18:53:10.951-08:002012-01-31T18:53:10.951-08:00"Speaking of George Lucas, his new movie Red ..."Speaking of George Lucas, his new movie Red Tails is phenomenal. Best aerial combat sequences since, well, the Wright Brothers."<br /><br />Is it computer generated? Top Gun was good because they had actual flying sequences. So much stuff today is just computer generated, even things like El tracks in NY in a movie I can't remember now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75301184276499695322012-01-31T15:15:28.064-08:002012-01-31T15:15:28.064-08:00Nostalgia piece. It's funny. American Graffiti...Nostalgia piece. It's funny. American Graffiti was made in 1973 and set in 1962. It's like a new 2012 movie set in 2001. Would a movie about 2001 generate nostalgia? Ha-ha. Except for TVs and cellphones, no one would be able to tell the difference.Propeller Islandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48288667526684194512012-01-31T14:50:26.664-08:002012-01-31T14:50:26.664-08:00"Are kids in the sticks still into cars?"..."Are kids in the sticks still into cars?"<br /><br />Driving used to be fun when I was younger. Of course, gas was 89-99 cents a gallon, absurd development had not gridlocked traffic for a hundred miles around every major city, and there was still money for road repairs. I drive more now, for occupational reasons, but I enjoy it about 3000 times less. It's just awful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74736147782618391242012-01-31T14:08:10.391-08:002012-01-31T14:08:10.391-08:00Cornell is a better school than Brown in just abou...Cornell is a better school than Brown in just about every respect: average SAT is very slightly lower, but that's only because the student body is much larger. Much better sports, campus, and selection of majors. Plus a law and medical school.Jacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72190299076060403172012-01-31T12:04:33.512-08:002012-01-31T12:04:33.512-08:00derp. he was the starting center, not the nose tac...derp. he was the starting center, not the nose tackle. now i know i'm getting old. starting to forget stuff from over a decade ago.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42042461915097061792012-01-31T12:01:41.625-08:002012-01-31T12:01:41.625-08:00i used to hang out with this guy who got his under...i used to hang out with this guy who got his undergrad at trinity, in texas, and who was the starting nose tackle for the trinity football team. back in 2001 he was one of the only guys writing for microsoft's nascent ipad predecessor, tablet PC. computers located in india kept stealing his code, so he eventually stopped publishing it freely. at the time he was employed by freemarkets, a startup based in pittsburgh.<br /><br />he was so far ahead in that and some other areas of software that harvard invited him to lecture there. i don't think it reflected too well on harvard, having some 26 year old former football player with a computer science degree from trinity, coming in to explain to the harvard computer science faculty, that future of software would be mobile computing.<br /><br />MZ and FB will forever sort of be associated with harvard, but the harvard CS department had nothing to do with it. he received no instruction from the faculty on it. it wasn't a collaboration with any of the staff, or a graduate project in conjuction with tenured professors, or anything like that at all. it was something he did as a freshman, totally independent of the curriculum.<br /><br />something relevant might be like, BASIC, developed at dartmouth.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88732980470006978822012-01-31T11:54:29.568-08:002012-01-31T11:54:29.568-08:00cal tech is not a safety school. it is one of the ...cal tech is not a safety school. it is one of the hardest places to get into in the world.<br /><br />"I'm a CS person, and I hold the schools in roughly equal esteem. Maybe Harvard is a little higher."<br /><br />i definitely do not. harvard is not on my radar as far as computer science goes. i don't think it sucks or anything, but it's no leader in that field. but different strokes for different folks. maybe you've had lots of strong experiences with harvard computer science people. <br /><br />i don't think of the ivys, pretty much ever, when it comes to engineering stuff. certainly there are a few outposts - the cornell mars rover team. but when i think ivys, i think, those are places for scientists, doctors, and lawyers to attend.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69202312265031039122012-01-31T11:27:17.259-08:002012-01-31T11:27:17.259-08:00I'm glad you brought up American Graffiti. In ...I'm glad you brought up American Graffiti. In my "Masculinist Cliches" course at Stanford last semester, we were asked whether the choice of the Edsel in this photo was intentionally phallic. I said it was a metaphor for impending rape, and got an A.<br /><br />http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.arts-stew.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Ron-Howard-and-Cindy-Williams-American-Graffiti-1973.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.arts-stew.com/%3Fattachment_id%3D1474&h=394&w=521&sz=37&tbnid=7c_FBB_lFqUgiM:&tbnh=102&tbnw=135&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcindy%2Bwilliams%2Bamerican%2Bgraffiti%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=cindy+williams+american+graffiti&docid=OMd0rp5qYaWypM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zj4oT7STPKrYiQLLtYGpAQ&ved=0CEMQ9QEwBA&dur=1236playin' the gamenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35862019388244450722012-01-31T09:17:03.717-08:002012-01-31T09:17:03.717-08:00not sure that everyone that gets into U of Alaska ...<i>not sure that everyone that gets into U of Alaska knows that Michigan and Cal are supposedly better schools.</i><br /><br />That is selection at work. Besides, very few U of AK students could realistically get admitted to UM or Cal. <br /><br />Native Americans in AK would have the best chance as a group. It would be nearly impossible for a middle to lower class whites who dominate AK to get admitted at Cal or UM as out of state applicants.<br /><br />The students at Brown are noticeably more elite and intellectual than Cornell. Cornell is the Rodney Dangerfield of the Ivy League, thus the character of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBUz4RnoWSM" rel="nofollow">Andy</a> on The Office.<br /><br />CalTech, MIT and nearly every top big University STEM department are relatively competitive places where even the very smart get humbled. Very few places like Harvard have similarly academically rigorous and competitive liberal arts studies.<br /><br />In nearly every case, I'd advise my child to go to Harvard over CalTech for the greater leverage their intelligence would give them in undergrad and the career doors it opens.Dean Wormernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29482426547436897672012-01-31T08:40:43.347-08:002012-01-31T08:40:43.347-08:00Further, an increasing percentage of teens, and ev...<i>Further, an increasing percentage of teens, and even of twenty-somethings, now eschew driving, even to the point of not bothering to learn to drive or to secure a driver's license - for which there are many disincetives, such as the higher cost of vehicles and insurance, the environmentalist propaganda with which kids have been inculcated since the late-60's, the urban-cred-"cool" of mass transportation advocacy and patronage, &c.</i><br /><br />I think another reason is today's traffic congestion and laws mandating kids use car seats. <br /><br />Urban young people today associate "driving" with crawling along at 25 mph while strapped into an uncomfortable chair listening to your parents curse at the other drivers.<br /><br />Are kids in the sticks still into cars?Paul Mendeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74051073357302792762012-01-31T08:11:57.376-08:002012-01-31T08:11:57.376-08:00American Graffiti has lots of atmosphere, but does...American Graffiti has lots of atmosphere, but doesn't have any particularly memorable characters or a particularly memorable story. It is a well done nostalgia piece, but kind of boring.Thursdayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13002311410445623799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13184246997479125782012-01-31T07:58:28.854-08:002012-01-31T07:58:28.854-08:00Re AG - whenever I've since seen it, it just m...Re AG - <i>whenever I've since seen it, it just makes me ache with longing for a time that was, in truth, simpler and in which not just teens, but all Americans, were freer and much more in control of our individual destinies than we now are </i><br /><br />God yes, and Im not a boomer and Im British but it makes me feel that too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70335435455018439592012-01-31T07:48:57.703-08:002012-01-31T07:48:57.703-08:00American Graffiti ushered in all of the 1950's...American Graffiti ushered in all of the 1950's worship crap in the 1970's. Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley came out of this. This led to all of the Baby Boomer exceptionalism, self worshipping and nostalgia that us future generations had to live with and get overshadowed by. BTW, I never understood, in Laverne and Shirley, why a bunch of people with Brooklyn accents were living in Milwaukee?Dahindanoreply@blogger.com